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Jo Bailey

@jobailey.bsky.social

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Designer, (was) @jo_bailey on Twitter. She/they. Scicomm PhD. Curious about architecture, typography, urban space, cats, visual culture, graphic design, renovation + making…

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Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 1d

Ikr. One fresh as, two well past their use-by date (actually rancid, tbh)

Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 1d

I loved her voice on here since she decided not to stand (I loved it before but even more with the filter off a bit). A voice we need 💚

Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 1d

How long until you’ll know for sure do you think?

Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 1d

A bright spark of hope! Congrats

Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 1d

@rebeccamatthews.bsky.social good to see your name on the list of councillors likely elected for Wharangi/Onslow-Western. So sorry you’ll have such cooked colleagues 🤨 keep on fighting the good fight! 💚

Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 1d

@lauriefoon.bsky.social looks like we get you back in Paekawakawa/Southern, and I am delighted (and a bit relieved!) 💚 yay Laurie!

Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 1d

So sorry to hear that 😞 best of luck in what comes next 💚 hope you’ll be back at the council table in the future

Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 2d

💯🧑‍🍳😘

the Juice Media @thejuicemedia.com · 2d

The Government of New Zealand has made a new tourism ad and it's surprsingly honest and informative!

Honest Government Ad | Visit New Zealand!

YouTube video by thejuicemedia

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Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 3d

🤮 you’ve been a kick-ass mayor and it’ll be great to have your voice around the table in the Māori ward after the election. Hosking is an inconsequential gobshite 💩

Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 4d

I found it totally perplexing when I grasped that ‘voice in my head’ was actually a literal experience for some people. I guess if I wanted to ‘practice’ a conversation it might, at a push, get close to ‘reading’ in my mind, but it’s generally quite quiet in there!

Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 4d

It’s interesting eh. Pretty sure I *don’t* have an internal monologue how it’s understood by some —no ‘voice in my head’ or any kind of narrator but I can obvs still mull things and weigh arguments and I might say ‘I thought to myself’—it’s just that thinking is nothing like talking or listening…

Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 10d

Less time to forget what you did! (Or is that a me problem? 🙃)

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tristam @tristam.bsky.social · 14d

we need to change the history of Aotearoa again… i found a 2,500 year-old Terracotta Warrior from Xi’an, China near Maupuia yesterday.

jk!

do you recognise this as a souvenir or something more interesting… ? full story…
www.reddit.com/r/Wellington...

From the Wellington community on Reddit: the archaeology of globalisation

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Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 15d

Here's a couple of images of it, I think…

The Te Aro railway station, 1900s, with a waiting horse and cart.
Alexander Turnbull Library, 1/2-104811-F. This image is reproduced on page 245 of the forthcoming book Mr Ward's Map, by Elizabeth Cox, published by Massey University Press

Caption from Mr Ward's Map, Massey University Press, page 185: The elaborate, newly built free public library sits at the centre
of this image from the late 1890s, with the School of Design
behind it. To the left of the library is Mercer Street and the new Working Men’s Club. The tall striped chimney on the left is that of the coal-powered electric power station on Harris Street (Sheet 30). At the harbour’s edge are the boat sheds for the Naval Volunteers, Star Boating Club
and Wellington Rowing Club, and,
further around the curve of the
harbour, the Te Aro railway station.
Victoria Street curves in front of
the library. Running through the
middle of the photograph is a line
of shops on Willis Street (on the
left) and the heavy industrial area
on Old Custom House Street (on
the right). The spire of St Mary
of the Angels Catholic Church
on Boulcott Street is in the
foreground. Alexander Turnbull
Library, 10x8-1022-G

Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 15d

I saw this recently! It's shown in a book I've just designed, 'Mr Ward's Map', out in Nov! It's written by historian Elizabeth Cox and uses Thomas Ward's 1891 map (all ~88 giant sheets, with every building shown) as the basis for telling amazing stories: www.masseypress.ac.nz/books/mr-war...

Dr William Chapple’s map of the inner-city Te Aro Flat area,
showing dots for each of the typhoid cases during the typhoid
epidemic of 1891 and 1892. His area of study was bounded by
the Basin Reserve in the south and the sea to the north, and Mount Victoria to the east and Cuba Street to the west. Wellington City Council Archives, 00233-1892/740

Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 17d

What the heck?!

Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 18d

grateful she did and for the bullet it allowed us to dodge; pretty galled how the following government is systematically trashing all the other good things: from smoke free to school school meals

Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 22d

We should just adopt their recommendations—all the complaints are the same here!

Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 22d

Small plant

Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 22d

Hmm karamu was also offered by the seek app—honestly though it was all over the show so I’m not sure I trust it!

Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 22d

More for context

Boot and small plant of unknown identity

Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 22d

Gardeners of #nz #kikorangi: what’s this? I was cutting down a cottoneaster and this was growing below (self seeded). Not the same as what I cut down. Seek has offered up privet, Myrtle rust (?!), Chilean guava, rata… oh and insect and bird lol!

A plant with small shiny green leaves

Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 22d

Overexcited reply management! Here’s the follow up: bsky.app/profile/joba...

Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 24d

I did it! I used your line!

Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 24d

As always, a sharp, on point, expressive skewering! Bravo!

Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 24d

Your words were pithy enough for me to hold my nerve and get it out before the security guy intervened! (I just got a pretty filthy look 👀). Still pretty cool to be able to do that and not be taken into custody, which doesn’t seem to be guaranteed elsewhere 😞